Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Chien Sun,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The final student of a dying martial arts master is instructed to locate the previous five students and defeat any evil ones among them.

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Carlos Muñoz,
Directors : Giuseppe Colizzi,

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot ...

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Joseph Bologna, John Beck, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : James Frawley,

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the ...

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Charles Tyner, Keith Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay,
Directors : John Guillermin,

P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, David Warner, Michael Caine, Frank Middlemass,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced ...

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Brenda Sykes, Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Arthur Hill, Robert Duvall, James Caan,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the CIA, is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Joe Don Baker, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

Actors : Roger Moore, James Mason, Michael Parks, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Don Medford,

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Donald Pleasence, Walter George Alton, Sydne Rome,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Katsuhiko Sasaki,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

The undersea nation of Seatopia sends the gigantic Megalon to destroy the world above - and it's up to Godzilla and a size-shifting robot, Jet Jaguar, to defeat him.